He proposed a new civil service system that would let ability -- not politics -- decide who got government jobs.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

But what it is quite clear is that it left the hands of government the ability to pick winners and losers and that is a very dangerous power.

但显而易见的是,政府有生杀大权,掌握公司的命运,这是非常危险的权。

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The speed and magnitude of the crisis surprised the government and aid agencies and has put an enormous strain of their ability to provide assistance.

VOA: standard.2009.07.03

There,terrorist sanctuaries and alleged links between militant groups and state intelligence and military branches have drawn widespread concern about the government's ability to take on the threat.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

The Pentagon report also says the global economic crisis and the fall in the price of oil may affect the Iraqi government's ability to provide funding for defense and economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.03.31

"We've seen the example of Greece, where there was no more trust in the Greek government's ability to cut down the budget, to contain the debt or to keep it under control."

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

"We not only lost our land, but we lost a lot of our fundamentals in terms of the ability to move across the land, the ability to express ourselves, our traditional forms of government."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

In the Oval Office, Prime Minister Harper said he does not worry that the Taliban could form an alternative government in Afghanistan, but that he is concerned about the Afghan government's ability to maintain security.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

"National security is something that is at risk. And that is why what we are trying to do is ensure that our networks our government networks, our private sector networks have the ability to withstand these attempts to hack in and to conduct activities."

VOA: standard.2010.02.07